Run Fast Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“There is great literature about imprisonment, . . . about the foot soldier, . . . about the sea -- but not one great work about flying.”

— John Sayles

“And then I was simply running, flying along the hallways of the palace on glass-slippered feet, not knowing, not caring where I was going.…

— Cameron Dokey

“Today this courtyard was filled with great warriors. What is more? But it was not filled with great men who have the heart to…

— Melina Marchetta

“In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains, On the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, In sleep,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

“Ignorance and evil, even in full flight, deal terrible backhanded      strokes at their pursuers."—HELPS.”

— Charles Kingsley

“That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.”

— Anthony Trollope

“He sailed through the world guided only by the dim lights of impulse and habit, confident that his course would throw up no obstacles…

— Donna Tartt

“How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Ordinary language was a form of life that needed - and permitted - nothing beyond itself. Humans were figures in a world they had…

— Anonymous

“Flies trouble us not by their strength but by their multitudes.”

— Nancy B. Brewer

“I scoffed at such old fashioned notions as duty, patriotism, the military virtues. And here I was, aged fifty, standing on guard at the…

— David Malouf

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini